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Invitation, Week 3, Day 18

by David Joynt on October 23, 2019

Invitation, Week 3, Day 18

MATTHEW 6:20a | But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

Everyone in the U.S., almost, has a bank account. You can’t get an apartment or a house without one! But not everyone realizes they also have a heavenly account.

Actions and attitudes in this life can become permanent assets in the next. This life is connected to the next through the interaction of God and the person and work of Jesus. This connection cannot be broken; even by death, for those who belong to him. In heaven our investments are immune from the ravages of time, the  deterioration of nature, and the rapacity of human greed.

How do you understand the truth that you have a heavenly account?

 

Tags: truth, heaven, connection, treasures, attitudes

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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